Genus Pteropus Brisson, 1762

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pteropus Brisson, M.J. 1762. Regnum Animale in classes ix. Distributum, sive synopsis methodica sistens generalem animalium distributionem in classes ix, & duarum primarum classium, quadrupedum scilicet & cetaceorum, particularem divisionem in ordines, sectiones, genera & species. Cum brevi cujusque specie descriptione, cicationibus auctorum de iis tractantium. Nominibus eis ab ipsis & nationibus impositis, nominibusque vulgaribus. Lugduni. Batavorum : Theodorum Haak 296 pp. [13, 153] [Delson, E. & Napier, P.H. 1976. Request for the determination of the generic names of the baboon and the mandrill (Mammalia: Primates, Cercopithecidae). Z.N. (S.) 2093. Bull. Zool. Nomen. 33: 46–60 [47], believed the validity of the mammal names from Brisson's Regnum Animale (1762) to be in doubt; Andersen, K. 1912. Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the Collection of the British Museum. 2nd Megachiroptera. London : British Museum Vol. 1 cii 854 pp. [61,77–78] identified Brisson, op. cit. as the original publication for Pteropus and identified Vespertilio niger Kerr, 1792 as its type species; Andersen, op. cit., p. 223 described Pteropus pteropus Brisson as a combination introduced into literature on the mistaken supposition that Brisson's nomenclature was binomial].

  Type species:

   Pteropus pteropus Brisson, 1762 by absolute tautonymy.

  Secondary source:

   Andersen, K. 1912. Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the Collection of the British Museum. Megachiroptera. London : British Museum Vol. 1 2, cii 854 pp.; Delson, E. & Napier, P.H. 1976. Request for the determination of the generic names of the baboon and the mandrill (Mammalia: Primates, Cercopithecidae). Z.N. (S.) 2093. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 33: 46-60.
• Spectrum Lacépède, B.G.É. (as Lacepède) 1799. Discours d'Ouverture et de Clôture du Cours d'Histoire Naturelle Donné dans le Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 1'an VII de la République, et tableaux méthodiques des mammifères et des oiseaux. Paris : Plassan 94 pp. [publication date established from Sherborn, C.D. 1899. Lacepède's 'Tableaux...des mammifères et des oiseaux,' 1799. Nat. Sci., Lond. 15: 406–409 [409]] [15 tableau] [tableau des division, sous-divisions, ordres et genres des mammifères; junior homonym of Spectrum Scopoli, 1777; Andersen, K. 1912. Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the Collection of the British Museum. 2nd Megachiroptera. London : British Museum Vol. 1 cii 854 pp. [61, 78] identified Vespertilio niger Kerr, 1792 as the type species; recorded (as Spectrum, P. Gray) from Australia by Trouessart, E.-L. 1878. Catalogue des mammifères vivants et fossiles. Rev. Mag. Zool. 3 6: 201–254 [204]].

  Type species:

   Vespertilio vampyrus Linnaeus, 1758 (=Spectrum Vampirus (Linnaeus, 1758)) by monotypy.

  Secondary source:

   Trouessart, E.-L. 1878. Catalogue des mammifères vivants et fossiles. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée. Paris 3 6: 201-254; Andersen, K. 1912. Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the Collection of the British Museum. Megachiroptera. London : British Museum Vol. 1 2, cii 854 pp.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Miller, G.S. 1907. The families and genera of bats. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 57: i-xvii 1-282 pls 1-14 [56]

 

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

PTEROPODIDAE: Pteropus hypomelanus Temminck, 1853 [excluding Pteropus brunneus Dobson, 1878, see Pteropus brunneus Dobson, 1878, Mahoney in Walton (ed.) (1988)]

PTEROPODIDAE: Pteropus melanotus Blyth, 1863 — Woinarski, J.C.Z., Burbidge, A.A. & Harrison, P.L. 2014. The Action Plan for Australian Mammals 2012. Melbourne, Victoria : CSIRO Publishing 1038 pp.

PTEROPODIDAE: Pteropus vampyrus (Linnaeus, 1758) [including (=Vespertilio vampyrus Linnaeus, 1758, syn. Pteropus edulis Geoffrey, 1810, syn. Pteropus funereus Temminck, 1987), see Zimmermann (1783: 181); Gould (1849) and Anderson (1881: 100)]

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indian Ocean islands, S Asia, SE Asian islands, New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago, S Pacific islands east to Cook Ils.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ) ; ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gascoyne (GAS), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT) ; ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, Tas, Vic, WA: South East Corner (SEC) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Yalgoo (YAL)

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater, Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• Madagascar

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal, W plateau
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal, W plateau
• Christmas Island (Aust. Terr.)
• Papua New Guinea
• Solomon Islands

Oriental Region

• Andaman Islands
• Christmas Island (Aust. Terr.)
• Indonesia
  • Irian Jaya
• Nicobar Islands
• Philippines

Distribution References

General References

Almeida, F.C., Giannini, P.P., Simmons, N.B. & Helgen, K.M. 2014. Each flying fox on its own branch: A phylogenetic tree for Pteropus and related genera (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 77: 83–95

Anderson, J. 1881. Catalogue of Mammalia in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Pt 1. Primates, Prosimiae, Chiroptera, and Insectivora. Calcutta : Indian Museum xvi 225 pp.

Gould, J. 1849. The Mammals of Australia. London : J. Gould Part 2.

Mahoney, J.A. in Walton, D.W. (ed.) 1988. Zoological Catalogue of Australia Volume 5. Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service x 274 pp. [Date published 13/Apr/1988]

Zimmermann, E.A.W. 1783. Geographische Geschichte des Menschen, und der allgemein verbreiteten vierfüssigen Thiere, mit einer hiezu gehörigen Zoologischen Weltcharte. Leipzig : Weygandschen Buchhandlung 3 278 +32 pp.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
12-Dec-2022	CHIROPTERA	12-Dec-2022	MOVED
04-Dec-2018	CHIROPTERA	04-Dec-2018	MODIFIED
17-Nov-2010		17-Nov-2010	MOVED
04-Dec-2018		17-Nov-2010	MOVED
02-Dec-2010		12-Dec-2022	MODIFIED
		12-Dec-2022	MODIFIED